Cleburne, Texas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Cleburne's normal year runs from 33°F January nights to 95°F August afternoons, with 37.7 inches of precipitation and less than an inch of snow (0.8 in) a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.3°C, January lows of 1°C, August highs of 35°C, 957 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationCleburne
- Station IDUSC00411800
- Location32.31°N 97.41°W
- Elevation783 ft (239 m)
- Population38,131
On October 23, the normal high in Cleburne is 76°F and the normal low 52°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 21%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Cleburne.
- Jan 57° 33°
- Feb 61° 37°
- Mar 68° 45°
- Apr 76° 53°
- May 83° 62°
- Jun 90° 70°
- Jul 95° 73°
- Aug 95° 72°
- Sep 89° 66°
- Oct 78° 54°
- Nov 67° 44°
- Dec 58° 36°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Cleburne each month?
August is the warmest month, with normal highs of 95°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 33°F. The most precipitation falls in October (4.43 in), the least in July (2.11 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57°F | 33°F | 45.1°F | 2.61 | 6 | <1 | 14 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 61°F | 37°F | 49.0°F | 2.52 | 6 | <1 | 8 | 11 h |
| March | 68°F | 45°F | 56.3°F | 3.47 | 7 | <1 | 3 | 12 h |
| April | 76°F | 53°F | 64.4°F | 3.08 | 6 | 1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 83°F | 62°F | 72.3°F | 4.27 | 8 | 7 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 90°F | 70°F | 80.1°F | 3.90 | 6 | 20 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 95°F | 73°F | 83.6°F | 2.11 | 5 | 28 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 95°F | 72°F | 83.7°F | 2.83 | 5 | 27 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 89°F | 66°F | 77.1°F | 3.02 | 5 | 17 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 78°F | 54°F | 66.4°F | 4.43 | 6 | 4 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 67°F | 44°F | 55.2°F | 2.92 | 6 | <1 | 4 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 58°F | 36°F | 47.0°F | 2.53 | 6 | <1 | 11 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 77°F | 54°F | 65.0°F | 37.69 | 70 | 105 | 41 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14°C | 1°C | 7.3°C | 66 mm |
| February | 16°C | 3°C | 9.4°C | 64 mm |
| March | 20°C | 7°C | 13.5°C | 88 mm |
| April | 25°C | 11°C | 18.0°C | 78 mm |
| May | 28°C | 17°C | 22.4°C | 108 mm |
| June | 32°C | 21°C | 26.7°C | 99 mm |
| July | 35°C | 23°C | 28.7°C | 54 mm |
| August | 35°C | 22°C | 28.7°C | 72 mm |
| September | 31°C | 19°C | 25.1°C | 77 mm |
| October | 26°C | 12°C | 19.1°C | 113 mm |
| November | 19°C | 6°C | 12.9°C | 74 mm |
| December | 15°C | 2°C | 8.3°C | 64 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00411800; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Cleburne?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, April has the fewest days with rain (6).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00411800.
When is the last frost in Cleburne?
In Cleburne, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 17 in half of years and after April 6 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 12 in half of years and before October 30 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- March 171 year in 10 after April 6; 9 in 10 after February 28
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 121 year in 10 before October 30; 9 in 10 before December 1
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 240 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 263 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 6 in half of springs and before November 25 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cleburne in zone 8b in ZIP code 76033. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Cleburne's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (25 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Texas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00411800; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Cleburne?
In a normal year in Cleburne, 105 days a year reach 90°F (20 of them 100°F or more), 41 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 70 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 105a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 20a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 41a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 2high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 70a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1907) is 114°F, on September 2, 1939; the lowest is −5°F, on December 23, 1989.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2007, with 55.94 in; the snowiest season is 1977–78, with 15.7 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00411800; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00411800. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Cleburne?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Cleburne, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (88%) and February the cloudiest (71%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 76% | 3.0 |
| February | 71% | 3.5 |
| March | 74% | 4.6 |
| April | 76% | 5.6 |
| May | 77% | 6.0 |
| June | 85% | 6.8 |
| July | 88% | 6.9 |
| August | 87% | 6.3 |
| September | 84% | 5.2 |
| October | 81% | 4.2 |
| November | 78% | 3.2 |
| December | 75% | 2.7 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Cleburne need?
A normal year in Cleburne brings 2,442 heating degree days, 55% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,484 cooling degree days, 2.7 times the median (908). Four months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 6,138 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 619 | 1 |
| February | 451 | 4 |
| March | 290 | 22 |
| April | 101 | 82 |
| May | 15 | 242 |
| June | 0 | 455 |
| July | 0 | 578 |
| August | 0 | 581 |
| September | 5 | 369 |
| October | 85 | 128 |
| November | 313 | 19 |
| December | 563 | 3 |
| Year (annual) | 2,442 | 2,484 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00411800. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Cleburne been warmer than normal lately?
Over 63 complete years from 1948 to 2017, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.9°F per century (+0.16°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Cleburne's climate compare?
Cleburne is warmer than 129 of the other 320 places with their own NOAA record in Texas, and wetter than 211. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 65.0°F is warmer than 88%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Cleburne is Cfa: temperate, no dry season, hot summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Cleburne share this climate record?
6 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Keene, TX6,930 people · 7 mi NE
- Grandview, TX1,946 people · 14 mi E
- Rio Vista, TX1,216 people · 6 mi S
- Blum, TX408 people · 12 mi S
- Covington, TX299 people · 13 mi SE
- Coyote Flats, TX295 people · 7 mi NE
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Cleburne's climate
What is the coldest month in Cleburne?
January, with a normal high of 57°F and a normal low of 33°F. The warmest is August (95°F by day, 72°F at night).
Does it snow in Cleburne?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is 0.8 inch a year.
What is the rainiest month in Cleburne?
October, with 4.43 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is July with 2.11 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Cleburne in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Cleburne in zone 8b in ZIP code 76033. By the same method at Cleburne's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (25 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Cleburne?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 17; in one year in ten it comes after April 6. Waiting until April 6 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
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